...From the first growth of the tree, many a limb and branch has decayed and dropped off; and these lost branches of various sizes may represent those whole...living representatives, and which are known to us only from having been found in a fossil state. As we here and there see a thin, straggling branch springing...

...From the first growth of the tree, many a limb and branch has decayed and dropped off ; and these lost branches of various sizes may represent those whole...living representatives, and which are known to us only from having been found in a fossil state. As we here and there see a thin struggling branch springing...

...From the first growth of the tree, many a limb and branch has decayed and dropped off; and these lost branches of various sizes may represent those whole...living representatives, and which are known to us only from having been found in a fossil state. As we here and there sec a thin straggling branch springing...

...From the first growth of the tree, manv a limb and branch has decayed and dropped off; and these lost branches of various sizes may represent those whole...living representatives, and which are known to us only from having been found in a fossil state. As we here and there see a thin straggling branch springing...

...From the first growth of the tree, many ;i limb and branch has decayed and dropped off; and thoc lost branches of various sizes may represent those whole...living representatives, and which are known to us only from having been found in a fossil state. As we here and there see a thin straggling branch springing...

...branches, yet survive and bear the other branches; so with the species which lived during long-past geological periods, very few have left living and...and which are known to us only in a fossil state. As we here and there see a thin straggling branch springing from a fork low down in a tree, and which...

...From the first growth of the tree, many a limb and branch has decayed and dropped off; and these lost branches of various sizes may represent those whole...living representatives, and which are known to us only from having been found in a fossil state. As wo here and there see a thin, straggling branch springing...

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...off; and these fallen branches of various sizes may represent those whole orders, families, and renera which have now no living representatives, and which are known to us only in a fossil state. As we here and there see a thiu straggling branch springing from a fork low down in a tree, and which...

...survive and bear the other branches ; so with the species which lived during long-past geolo* gical periods, very few have left living and modified descendants....and which are known to us only in a fossil state. As we here and there see a thin straggling branch springing from a fork low down in a tree, and which...